01x15 - Garcia Stands Accused

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Zorro". Aired: October 10, 1957 –; July 2, 1959.*
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Series is set in Los Angeles of the early nineteenth century, when it was part of the old Spanish California, where the people are oppressed by their rulers.
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01x15 - Garcia Stands Accused

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(THUNDERCLAP)

♪ Out of the night when
the full moon is bright

♪ Comes a horseman
known as Zorro

♪ This bold renegade
carves a "Z" with his blade

♪ A "Z" that stands for Zorro

♪ Zorro!

♪ The Fox so cunning and free

♪ Zorro!

♪ Who makes the sign of the "Z"!

♪ Zorro, Zorro, Zorro

♪ Zorro, Zorro ♪

Oh, no, Comandante,
it was not my fault...

(SIGHS)

"Sergeant Garcia." It's for me.

"From... Zorro!"

(WHINNYING)

"If you will come
to the high road

"above Cahuenga Pass
tomorrow night, all alone,

"I will surrender
myself to you. Zorro."

"I will surrender
myself to you. Zorro!"

No trouble? Everything
went as planned?

Si, Gomez.

Now it is up to the fat sergeant.
He's ambitious and stupid.

He, too, will do
exactly as we planned.

"Tomorrow night, all alone."

All alone.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Come in. Come in, please.

Ah, Don Diego, come in.

I came to offer
my congratulations.

On what?

On your new office.

Oh, no, Don Diego. I am only sitting
here till another Comandante comes.

Oh, too bad. The accommodations
are much better than at the barracks.

Does this come with it?

Don Diego, I was
wondering about something.

About what?

Well, if a certain sergeant

were to capture
a certain outlaw,

and lock him up in jail...

You mean, if Sergeant
Garcia should capture Zorro?

Si, Don Diego, but please
do not tell me what I mean.

Let me figure it out for myself.

It would be a great feather in your
cap. You would win a promotion.

Do you think maybe
I might become

new Comandante of
Los Angeles, perhaps?

Comandante of Los Angeles?

(PLAYS GUITAR)

♪ Sergeant Garcia

♪ Amigo, I see your muscles

♪ Are mighty and strong

♪ A great Comandante

♪ You surely would be

♪ But that's not
the end of my song

♪ A great Comandante,
a man of renown

♪ With an air of
distinction and style

♪ The wicked will pale
at the sight of your frown

♪ And the good will
rejoice at your smile

♪ When you're Comandante
with splendid moustache

♪ And a devilish
gleam in your eye

♪ The ladies will thrill
at your glitter and dash

♪ And swoon as
they watch you go by

♪ When you're Comandante
You'll ride a white horse

♪ As fast as an eagle in flight

♪ And you will chase Zorro

♪ And catch him, of course

♪ While everyone
cheers with delight

♪ So Zorro is brought
to a horrible end

♪ By our hero so
daring and strong

♪ Our new Comandante

♪ Garcia, my friend

♪ And that is the
end of my song ♪

(DIEGO LAUGHING)

Thank you, Don Diego, for
helping me to make up my mind.

About what?

I think I will start to grow the
moustache now, so it will be ready.

Halt where you are!

You have come alone, Sergeant?

Si, I have come alone.

Take off your sword and drop it.

Take off my sword and...

No. Never. A soldier
does not take off his sword.

Do you want to go
on to meet El Zorro?

Do you want him
to surrender to you?

Si. That is why I have come,
to have him surrender to me.

You can only meet Zorro unarmed.

You can pick it up
on the way back.

GARCIA: About the
surrender... We will discuss terms.

I will insist that it be unconditional.
Understand? Unconditional!

Please?

You can discuss that with Zorro.

Now ride straight up
the trail for two miles,

until you come
to a pile of rocks.

And there another voice
will tell you which way to go.

This is Sergeant
Garcia. I am here now.

Is somebody here who's to
take me to Zorro? Please?

I... I left my sword back there.

The man said there would
be somebody here to tell me...

Senor Magistrado.

Fetch the doctor.

What happened, Senor?

At the pass, I was
robbed and beaten.

Left for dead.

DIEGO: Who are you, Senor?

There is something
in his pocket.

This man is the king's
messenger from Monterey.

He was bringing the
payroll for the garrison.

Our payroll? Who took it?
Find out who robbed him!

Be quiet. Why should I?

We haven't been paid in four
months. Who took it? Was it Zorro?

Zorro? No, soldier.

I was robbed and
beaten by one of you.

The man who stole your
pay is one of you soldiers.

No. Not him.

No.

Much too small.

No. Much bigger.

No.

No. Not him. He
is not the one. No.

Are you sure you could remember?

If you are beaten and left
for dead, you remember.

My friend, I know we do not have
the cream of the army in this garrison,

but I did think they were above
stealing one another's pay.

I told you what happened.
That is all I know.

But are you sure
it was a soldier?

Could you not have been
mistaken, in the darkness?

If that is what you think,
look in my saddlebag.

He broke it over my body. I
brought it back, thought it might help.

Open the gates! Who
ordered them closed?

What goes on when I am
not here to take care of things?

Sometimes I think that...
Buenos dias, Your Excellency.

Sergeant, where is your sword?

Well, I... It...

Is that it?

Si. Gracias, Your Excellency.

But it is broken.
How did it get broken?

Perhaps when you robbed the
king's messenger in Cahuenga Pass.

Such a good sword,
too. It's too bad it got...

Robbed the king's messenger? Me?

Really, Your Excellency.

Just a minute, Don Diego.

Is that the man?

That is the man.

Arrest him.

But I did not rob anyone.

Arrest him! Who
is in charge here?

I am. But you are the accused.

But I am also acting Comandante.

Ah...

Put me in cell number one.
And post a double guard.

I think I am a very
dangerous man.

I saw you last night
sneaking towards the pass.

I wish I'd known then
what you were up to.

Si. I wish I had known, too.

(LAUGHTER)

All right, prisoner.
What happened then?

Then I waited some more
and then I shouted some more.

And then nothing
happened, so I came home.

You expect us to believe
this preposterous story?

No, Your Excellency.

You don't expect
us to believe it?

I wish you would, but I
almost do not believe it myself,

and I am telling it.

(LAUGHTER)

(BANGS GAVEL)

You claim you didn't know
the messenger was arriving.

Si, I did not know, so how
could I go out and rob him?

Maria Crespo, will
you come forward?

The night before last, did you
serve the prisoner here at the tavern?

Si.

Did he tell you he expected the king's
messenger from Monterey bringing his pay,

and did he say that he expected
the messenger that very night?

Si. He said that.

DIEGO: Your Excellency...

As a friend of the prisoner, I
should like to ask Maria a question.

Out of respect to the de la
Vega name, I will permit it.

Maria, was that the first time

the sergeant said he expected
a messenger with his pay?

Oh, no, Don Diego. Every time I
ask him about his bill, he says that.

(LAUGHTER)

How many times has he
said this in the past year?

Maybe 100, 200 times.

Oh, no, Maria. A few
times, maybe. Not so many.

(LAUGHTER)

Maria...

Don Diego, this line
of questioning is trivial

and it serves no useful purpose.

The charge is one of the
most serious known to our laws,

as*ault upon a king's
messenger upon a king's highway.

And after hearing
all the evidence,

I find that charge
conclusively proved.

Prisoner, it is now my
duty to pass upon you

the sentence which
the law prescribes.

And that sentence is...

death.

No, Don Diego.

There is only one possibility for
me, and even that is impossible.

What is that? Zorro.

Zorro? But he got you in here by
throwing that rock through your window.

I have been thinking about
that and thinking about that,

and the more I think about it,

the more I am sure
it was not Zorro.

I think somebody has tricked me.

Well, uh, we might
consider that as a possibility.

I shouldn't have wanted
to become Comandante.

Oh, don't say that, Sergeant.

Let us consider
what your position is.

You know you're innocent,
and I know you're innocent.

There must be
some way to prove it.

I hope so. All right, now...

They tricked you
out to the pass.

Si.

They tricked you into dropping your
sword so it would help incriminate you.

Si, but, shh, please,
Don Diego, not so loud.

They did it so they could rob the
messenger and put the blame on you.

Si.

But why did the
messenger think it was you?

Did the man look like you?

Oh, no. In the whole world,

there is only one
person who looks like me.

That is my cousin in Monterey.

Your cousin looks like you?

You could not tell us apart.

Except for one little thing,
he is skinny like a rail.

But that is just it.

How can it be a case
of mistaken identity...

Unless...

Unless what, Don Diego?

Unless there was no mistake.

I do not understand.

The whole thing was a plot
and the messenger was in on it.

I still don't understand.
The fellow was nearly k*lled.

How do we know that?

Anyone can pretend to be
injured, to wrap himself in bandages.

Maybe he was never
att*cked at all. Maybe...

Prisoner, it is
my duty to tell you

that sentence will be ex*cuted
upon you tomorrow morning at sunrise.

Sunrise. I'm not
even awake by then.

I understand that the messenger
is staying at your house.

I should like to put
questions to him.

He is no longer at my house.
He is on his way back to Monterey.

On his way back?

Well?

He is supposed to
be severely injured.

He was severely injured,

but his orders were to
return, and he is doing so.

Your Excellency,

in the name of justice I ask that the
execution be postponed for 24 hours.

In the name of justice?
You ask, Don Diego?

I am the king's magistrate
and I am justice in this town.

And, Senor, you,
from all I can learn,

you are an idle young
man who never before

has concerned himself with
more than the cut of his clothes

or the tuning of his guitar.

Sentence will be ex*cuted
tomorrow morning at sunrise.

You see, Don Diego? I should
never have wanted to be Comandante.

My friend, I believe that two and
two are just beginning to make four.

Well, I'm glad of that.

Something will happen.

Something is going to happen
tomorrow morning at sunrise.

No, that's not
what I mean. Look...

I cannot say anything
more, except do not give up.

I will not give up. I will
be waiting... Right here.

There's one desperate chance.

That is for Zorro to catch up with
the messenger and bring him back.

Say a little prayer that
I can make it in time.

(WHINNYING)

(WHINNIES)

(WHINNIES)

(CONTINUES WHINNYING)

It's dark in here.

Would you rather not wear it?

I think I would rather
see them not doing it

than not to see them
when they do do it.

Si. I will leave it off, please.

Well, goodbye, Corporal.

Goodbye, Sergeant.

I know what they think,

but at least you know
I'm innocent, don't you?

Of course, Sergeant. There is
no one more innocent than you.

Gracias, Corporal.

However...

However what?

Would you do something for me?

Anything, Corporal.

(WHISPERING) Please tell
me where you hid the money.

What money?

Come along, Corporal. Don't
keep the prisoner waiting around.

Do not hurry on my account.
I do not mind waiting around.

Does the prisoner
have anything to say

before sentence is
ex*cuted upon him?

Si.

Very well. What is it?

I wish I'd never
joined the army.

Ready!

Aim!

(g*nshots)

Zorro!

Now tell them the truth.

sh**t him! sh**t Zorro!

Wait a minute.
You want your pay?

Yes. Yes, we want our pay.

Tell them what happened to him.

Nobody robbed me.

I only pretended to be hurt.

I was told I could keep the
money if I said I was robbed

by the fat sergeant.

Please, couldn't
you just say plump?

And here, my friends,
is your four months' pay.

Adios, my big, fat sergeant.

The gold.

(LAUGHING)

Go after him! Send
the men after him!

Who, me?

Yes, you idiot.

But I am under arrest.

That's over. You're
not under arrest.

Why didn't you say so before?

Up to the roof,
lancers. After him.

No, you idiot. Go after Zorro.

Of course, Your Excellency.

Just as soon as we have the
messenger safely behind bars,

we won't stop.

Everybody, up to the
roof! Up to the roof!

Garcia, you're a fool.

Maybe I am a fool,

but I think it would be politer to
catch Zorro another time. Don't you?

Yes. Another eagle
feather, Bernardo.

The messenger said the Magistrado
gave it to him to take to Monterey.

So our self-righteous
friend is mixed up in this, too.

But what is it all about?

First they k*ll the Comandante,

then they try to turn the soldiers
against one another, and...

Wait a minute.
Look, Bernardo. Look.

Notice the strange way
in which the barbs are cut.

I'm sure it has a
special meaning.

If we could find
out what it was,

it might tell us
their next move.

(SIGHS) We will have to wait
and find out when it comes.

You and me...

and Zorro.

NARRATOR: Next week, the
ominous warning of the eagle's feather

threatens misery and
suffering for the innocent.

A trap set for the elusive Zorro
gives up an amazing catch.

Sergeant Garcia, what are you
doing in those ridiculous clothes?

How did you know it was me,
Excellency? I'm wearing a mask.

NARRATOR: New laughs, new
thrills, new perils are yours next week,

when the Walt Disney
Studio presents Zorro!
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